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w. P. TAYLOR, VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 21. I916.

1,306,201, PatentedJune 10, 1919.

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VENDING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR.21. 191s.

1,306201 Patnted June 10, 1919.

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VENDING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED APR. 27. 1916.

1,306,201. Patented June 10, 1919.

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Be it known that I, 'WmLmM citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vendin Machines; and I do hereby declare the fo lowing to bea full, clear, and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enab e others skilled in the art to whichit 'appertains tomake and use the same: t.

' features capable of use either in multiplenation is depositedtherein, wi

My invention relates to coin-controlled vending machines, and generally stated, has

for its object to simpllfy the construction andimprove the operationthereof.

Partlcularly the invention is directed to improved mec anism which makes practi-- cable the use of a single coin mechanism to control the delivery of articles from any one of a multiplicit or group of magazines; but the invent1on va- 0 involves other important magazine machines, or in single magazine machines. a 4

In the arrangement of the multiple-magazine machine, t e magazines which may contain the same orvery difl'erent articles "which areto be sold at the same price, are 1 preferably placed in'a row and the articles are discharged therefrom by independently operable ejectors, preferablykin the form of slides. .Normally, all of the slides for the particular group of magazines, are secured in positions to prevent the discharge or es-' cape of articles from therespective magazines, by means of a so-called limiting lock which, when released, will permit any one 0 the slides, but one slide only, to be moved from normal position into position to cause or to permit the discharge of one article from the cooperating magazine. limitin lock includes a so-called tri ping lever t at normally coo erates wit the other lock elements to hol all of theslides in normal position, as above stated ;-and this tripping lever has a coin receiving ocket, WhlCh, when a coin of the pro er enomimove said lever into a och-releasing position. a

The coin deposited in the pocket of there leasing, lever, after one of the released slides has been operated, will be ejected and dropped through a chuteto'an intercepting device which temporarily holds theco n inla front of a sight opening for the purpose of Specification of Letters Patent.

Appllcation flled Aprflfi'l, 1916. Serial No. 98,881.

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same into a suitable coin receptacle.

With the above general statements in mind, the following detailed description will be readily understood. i

In the accompanyin drawings which illustrate the invention, Iik e. characters indicate like arts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawin s:

Fi re 1 is a view chie y in vertical sec-' tion, at with some parts in :side elevation, showing the, improved multiple-magazine machine;

Fig. -2 is a horizontal section taken on the I linew w ofFi.'1;

Fig.'3 is a d etail view-inplan, showing parts found in the vicinity of the line marked a a) of Fig. 1; \i

Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line :22

Fig. 5 is-a front elevation of the machine; Fig. 6 is a vertical section Fig. 7 "s as'ection taken approximately on the same lineas Fig. 1, but with some parts broken away,

and with the parts shown on a larger sca than in Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is a view corresponding in line-of.

itssection to Fig. 2, but'with the parts on a some parts broken away;. F1 '91s a vertical section taken a PI'OXI- mate yon the line m w? of Fig. some;

parts broken awayj Fig. 10 is'a sectlon taken approximately Fig. 11 is. a fra entary view in section 7 taken approximate y on the same line as Fig.

9, .but with some parts broken away;

Fi 12 is a horizontal section on the irregular inetv w of'Fig. 9; and

Fig. 13 is a perspective viewshowlng a ma dnne' made up '0 a multiplicity of comnartments havin a common case. Referring to .1516 construction illustrated Patented June M). 1919 inspection, and, subsequently, drops the taken on the in Figs. 1 to-'12,'inclusive, the numeral 1 in- Q dicates a rectangular case or cabinet shown I --as provided with a displaceable cover 2 and wit a horizontal partition 3.-The magazines 4 for containin the' articles to be dispaused, are vertica ypositioned in ro'ws 'alined from front-to rear of the case, and are provided with raised bottoms 5 by means of which'they are rigidiy secured to thehoriere it. is important to rear portion of each such slide is in form of note that the said raised bottoms 5, in a direction'from rear to front of the case, are

- operator.

As showii, there are four magazines in the machine illustrated, and hence, for co6pera-.

tion therewith, I provide four spring retracted parcel ejectors or e'ecting slides 8, the front ends of which wor through guide slots in the front place of thecase 1 and terminate in suitable heads, adapted to be engaged by the fingers of the operator. The said slides 8 are located in a vertical row,

one over the other, and in a direction from top to bottom, they are progressively longer and longer, so that theupper slide projects to the rear of the front magazine, the second slide from the to to the rear of the second magazine from he front, the third slide from the front and the bottom slide to the rear of the rearmost magazine. The said slides coiiperate with the said' magazines in the order just described, and, under forward movements, will eject articles from the 006perating magazine and .discharge the same through the cooperating passages 6. The arrangement of the slides for accomplishing this result may be varied, but, as shown, the

a rectangular yoke 8, which, at the rear, terminates in angular lugs 8". These lugs 8 when the slide is moved forward, ositively carry the bottom-most article mm the magazine to the discharge passage 6 and temporarily hold up the other articles in the magazine until the slide has been restored to normal position. The slides 8 are retracted by springs 8, (see Fig. 7).

- By reference particularly to Figs. 7 and 8 it will be noted that-the front portions of the slide yokes 8. and the rear portions of the slide proper 8, work through a rectangular guide frame 9 secured on the partition 3.

This transverse front bar of the yokes 8 to limit the forward and rearward movements of the ejecting slides.

The slide limiting lock mechanism, as preferably constructed, involves a plurality or stack of metallic balls or similar loosely associated elements 10 that are contained in the upright metallic tube 11 shown as rigidly secured 1n its lower end to the partition 3,

and also .to any other convenient support,

not shown. The upper end of thetube ll is guide frame 9 coiiperates with the.

closed against the escape of the. upper ball 10, but has a narrow slit through which works a narrow stop lug or blade 12 of a socalled lock-releasing lever 13 that is intermediately pivoted at 14, to a'bifurcated upper end extension 15 of the tube 11. At one end,

this lever 13 has an upwardly flaring coin receiving pocket 16 that is open at its bottom and at one side. The upwardly flaring or downwardly converging edge walls of the pocket 16 are so spaced at their lower extremities that they will catch and hold a coin of the proper denomination, but will let pass any smaller coin. The other end of the lever 13 is so weighted that it will hold the lever 13 with its coin pocket raised, as shown by full lines in Fig. 9, but will be rocked into the position indicated.b%dotted lines in Fig. 9 and by full lines in ig. 11, whenever a coin of the proper denomination, .to-wit,

proper size and weight, is caught and tem-' porarily held in the pocket 16.

When the lock-releasing lever 13 is in its normal position just stated, its lo ck lug 12 will engage or stand close to the upper ball 10 and will prevent separa'tion.

In each ejector slide 8 (see particularly Figs.' 9, 11 and 12) I provide a laterally projecting so-called lock blade 17, that is of a thickness which will approximately take up the play permitted between the balls 10, when the lock lug 12 of the lever 13 is retracted and the upper. ball is then capable of being moved again't the upper end .of the tube 11. The tube 11 is provided with slots 11 that permit the blades 17 to engage with the balls 10. Y

'With this arrangement, th .refore, normally, and when the lever 13 is in the position shown by full lines in Fig. 9,"no one of the ejector slides can be drawn outward or operated, because there is then not sufficient play between the balls 10 to permit one of the blades 17' to beforced between any two balls. When, however, the lever '13 is in its releasing position shown in Fig. 11,

any one of the slides may bedrawn outward or into a parcel ejecting position, thereby carrying its blade v17 between the adjacent balls 10, as shown in Fig. '11, but when this is done, all 'of the other ejector slides are locked in their normal or inoperative positions, because there is then not sufiicient' play between the balls to permit a sec.- ond b ade 17 to be forced between them.

1 The coin may be delivered to the receiving tockpt of the releasinglever 13 in any a le wa suit but, as shown, this is accomplished as follows, attention being called particularly to Figs. 1, 3, 4, 9 and 10, wherein the numeral 18 indicates a coin depositing slide mounted ina guide housing 19 and provided with a coin receiving perforation 20 that is adapted to-carry the coin from the casing .19 into the upper extremity of i intercepter rocked, as shown by fulllines 7 an inclined coin delivery chute 21, the lower the front portion of the bearmg 25 1,eoe,eo1 p a end of :which terminates in position to deliver the coin directly into the flaring pocket 16 'of the lock releasing lever 13.

When the coin is deposited into the said pbcket 16, it is prevented from falling later-. ally out ofthe open side thereof, by means ofa retaining head 22 carried by an arm 23 on the upper end'of a vertical rock shaft at its upper end in a bearing 25 on the guide frame 9, and at its lower end, is journaled in a suitable bearing on the partition 3. This rock-shaft, at its upper end, is also provided with a com ejecting finger 26, the end of which is spaced fromthe retaining head 22 and normally stands on the opposite side of the coin-receiving pocket. 16. The rock shaft 24, also, is "provided with a plurality of -projecting trip arms 27, one for.

each ejecting slide. The front ends of these trip fingers 27 normally stand as shown in Fig. 12, projecting through perforations in yoke 9, and in position to be engaged by t e front orti on of the yoke 8 'of the corresponding e ector shde 8. Normally, the rock shaft 24 is held with the coin-retaining head 22 and trip arm,27 in-the position indicated by full lines in Figs lO and 2, by means of a coiled spring 28 showns anchored to the bearing yoke 9 and shaft,

- Whenever one of the slides 8 is drawn out, as above described, the front portion of its yoke 8 will engage the cooperating trip arm 27 of the rock shaft 24 andthereby move the coin retainin head 22 away from the coin, and the coin ejecting arm 26 against the coin, and thereby" force the said coin out ofthepocket 16. The coin thus ejected from the pocket of the lock releasing lever 13 will drop into the flaring upper end of a second coin chute 30. The inclined lower end of th1s chute 30 delivers the coin to a scoop-hke com intercepter 31 that is pivoted at 32 to a bearing on the partition 3, and is provided with an upwardly extended arm 33 adapted to be engaged by pins 34 on the several 'slides 8. Normally, or when all of the slides are in normal position, this coin intercepter isyieldingly held by gravityfor otherwise, in theposltion shown in Fig. '1,

wherein it holds a reviously deposited coin y In front of a sig t opening 35 formed in the'front plate of the case 1, When any one of the ejector slides 8. is drawn out, the'coin intercepter will be moved into theposition.

66 indicated by full lines inFig. 7, and will then drop the coin y into a coinreceptacle shown as in the form of a drawer 36 slidably mounted in the casing 1 and normally loc ed. Here it'should benoted that when an ejecting slide is drawn out and'the coin the the arm 29 on said rockity of parcel ejectors, o

" ranged to pass between the sai in Fig. 7, its back flange projected upward through a sl0t.30 in the chute 30, so

that it will then stop a coin delivered into said chute by an action resulting from the movement of. the said operated slide 8.

to normal position, the coin intercepter will be movedbackto the position shown in Fig.

same parcels or parcels of very di erent character, The saidparcels, in Figs. 7 and 8, are indicated at 31 Fig. 13 shows a machine made up of three sections, such as above described, but each havmg a dlfierent number of magazmes, and each sect1on,- of course, having its own com mechanism. In this illustration, the casing is indicated by the character 1, its cover by 2, the several delivery chutes at 7, the several coin drawersor receptacles at 36* and the several ejector slides a. Figs. 5 and 13 diagrammatically show label holders 37 'al1 ned with the heads of the ejector slides a, and which may be marked to indicate the kind of parcels delivered by operation of articular slide. hat I claim is: a 1. In a vending machine, the combination with a plurality of; ma azmes, of a plural; I? for each magazine, a limitin' plicit of separa'ble elements normally locking a lof said ejectors, and a releasing lelock mechan sm having a multi- .70 When the. said ejector slide is again restored I 1 and will catch and temporarily hold the 24, which rock shaft, as shown, is journaled 'ver normally holding the separable elements of said lock mechanism against separation, but movable into a position to permit a limited separation of sald lock elements,t0 thereby permit any one of said ejectors to be op- .erated.

2. In a vending machine, the combinationwith a plurality of magazines of a'plurality of ejector slides, one for eac magazine, a limlting'lo'ck mechanism comprising a multiplicity of separable elements and a container therefor, said slides havin blades arseparable lock elements when the latter are free to separate within said container, and a releasing lever normally holding said lock elemerits against se ca gfbe {passed tween members thereof, therebynormally locking all of said ejector slides, the said lever bein lease said lock elements, t c said container then permitting a separation thereof which :will permit the blade of but one slide to be moved therebetween at any one time. A

3; In a vending machine, the combination with a plurality of magazines, of a plurality of parcel ejectors, one foreach'magazine, a limiting lock mechanism having-a multiplicration, so that no blademovable to re- I ity of separable elements normally locking said pocket whenever one of said parcel 10 all of said ejectors, and a releaslng lever ejectors is operated. normally holding the separable elements of In testimony whereof I aifix my signature said lock mechanism against separation, but in presence of'two witnesses. X

movable into a position to permit a limited separation of said lock elements, to thereby WILLIAM A Q permit any one of saigl ejectors to be oper- Witnesses: I

atecl, said lever having a coin-receiving F. D. MERCHANT,

pocket, and means for ejecting the coin from HARRY D. KILGORE. 

